Improvement in horse-stall floors



y Horses, and other` animals, possessing, as I believe,

to carry olf the urine, while I maintain a level stands' animals by. standing on inclined floors, especially when A companying thereon.` y

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JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH,

or `Gunn/sec), ILLINOIS;

13mm Pawm'lvo. 90,172, ma May 1s, 1869.

IMPRQVEMENT rn'aonsrtsrnr.l rnoons. f

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent and making pari:v of the same.

`To au whom a may mams l 4 Beit known that I, JAMES Honnmeswonrn, of

the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illil nois, have inventeda new and useful Mode of Gonstructing and -Putting Down the Floors of Stalls-for four important and useful features, namely: l First, 'by this improvement, I secure a steepincline ing for the animal.

Secondly, this improvement will save its whole cost y inbedding every three months, while it insures elean-` liness andcomfort tothe animaland pleasure yto the owner.

Thirdly, time saved ingrooming, because the animals cannot get foul in their 'own offal'.

Foulthly, this Yimprovement entirely obviates vthe injurious eiect produced upon the feetV and limbs of gutter formed in the'vloor, or it' maypass, directly down at the ends yof the s1ats,by means oiholes bored in the door, orcarried off by means 'of thetrough or.

gutter before named.` v

To enable others skilled in thearts to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being' had to the acdrawings,'and to the letters of reference Figure l represents a side view of the stall-floor; -Figure2, an end view; and

Figure 3, a perspective view of the same,

a b c d represent the joists or sleepers on which the stall-floor rests. A y y e e, the inclined tight door. .fff 86e., the slats, or strips, cut tapering, and secured by nailing to floor c e.

'i i i, 85e., show the spaces between the slats.

g represents the trouglnfor gutter, at the foot of the slats.

The operation is such, that urine from the animal i standing upon the horizontal surface of the slats f ji will pass down between'the slats in the space e' i, and

-run olf on the inclined plane ee, to the trough, or gutterg. i

The advantages of this construction aref First, the animal stands on a horizontal floor, avoiding the strain incident to standing on inclined floors;

of the animal, in having a dryv Second, the comfort bedv toilie down upon;

Third, the time and labor saved as the great saving in bedding; and

Fourth, animals can be well cared for and kept perfectly` clean by animal.

I`do not claim the invention of inclinedY floors for' animal-stalls, either when laid close, or with slats,`

leaving a space between; but l What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The inclined floor e, slats ff, and trough g, all con'- --structed, combined, and arranged in the manner and for-thepurpose herein described. l

` JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH.

Witnesses:

W. H. WALrnRs, S. WANzEn. l

in grooming, as well small boys, unable to groom a filthy 

